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Plaster cornice and coving in Belfast, fitted new, repaired or matched to the Victorian and Edwardian mouldings already in your house.
Cornice and coving in Belfast is one of those jobs that changes a room more than people expect. Zavoré fits new plasterwork, restores damaged period cornice and makes new lengths to match what is already in your house. We also supply, install and teach authentic Italian lime based Venetian plaster, and we are based in Birmingham, where our Academy is. Our own artisans work across the UK. To begin, send photos of the ceiling edge.
The city expanded fast in the Victorian years, and thousands of red brick terraces went up with front parlours that were meant to impress. Many kept a decorated cornice and a ceiling rose at the centre. The villas of Malone, Stranmillis and the Antrim Road side of town went further, with deeper, richer mouldings in the grand rooms. Edwardian work is usually lighter again.
Time has been hard on a lot of it. Layers of paint clog the detail, extensions and knocked through rooms interrupt the run, and old repairs sit badly beside the original. Original period plasterwork is worth repairing and matching, not ripping out, because a house with its mouldings intact simply feels right.
We make and fit simple curved coving, ornate cornice, ceiling roses, panel mouldings, corbels and columns, plus bespoke profiles drawn for a modern scheme. The two names are often used for the same thing. Coving usually means a plain curve, and cornice a more detailed moulding with steps and beads. Our national plaster cornice and coving page has the full picture.
Commercial rooms use it too. Hotels, restaurants and offices in converted Victorian buildings around the city centre often want mouldings that read as original, and a panel moulded wall can turn a plain room into a classical one.
Photos of the ceiling, with the room size and the postcode, come first. We look at what is actually up there before we match, repair or replace anything, and the survey covers cracks, damp, movement and how the room is used. If a ceiling needs work before mouldings can go up, we say so plainly. Where you want a match, we take the existing profile.
Belfast is some way from our centres, so the work is planned in blocks of days and the team stays on the job. Dates are agreed once the price and profile are signed off. Details of the fitting sit on our cornice and coving installation page, and the sample board helps when you want a plaster or paint finish on the walls beneath.
Listed buildings may need consent before work, so the owner should check with their council first.
Everything we install, we teach. Courses run at our training centres in Birmingham, London and Manchester, the same courses at each, and the training page lists them. Mouldings frame everything else, so panels over a limewash wall or a rose in a polished room feature in our decorative work schemes.
Once the ceiling is right, the walls below can follow. A gilded edge to the cornice is gilding in Belfast, and a deep gloss dining room is lacquered walls in Belfast. Painted scenes under a moulded ceiling are murals in Belfast. Carved pictures are bas relief in Belfast, while patterned feature walls are sculptural plaster in Belfast. Hall floors are mosaics in Belfast. Garden and pool looks are artificial rock in Belfast, and a chimney breast in plaster stone is travertino in Belfast. Speak to a decorative finishes specialist in Belfast, or read about Venetian plastering in Belfast.
Often, yes. Cracked, broken and missing sections can be repaired and rebuilt, and over painted detail can be cleaned back, so the run reads as it was meant to.
Yes. We take the profile of the cornice already in the house and make new lengths to match it, blended in so you cannot see where the old stops and the new begins.
For an older house, yes. Plaster keeps a crisp edge, takes paint properly and can be repaired like the rest of the ceiling. Foam has soft detail and looks out of place in a period room.
Not at the moment. We fit, restore and match cornice, coving, ceiling roses and panel mouldings, including ones you have bought yourself.
It may. If your house is listed, the owner should check with their council before any work to the ceilings.
To discuss your ceilings, call 07592 929191 (Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm) or email sales@zavore.co.uk with photos, the room size and your postcode. Have a look at the sample board for any plaster walls too.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Belfast and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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Our main services: Venetian plaster installation, limewash installation, every decorative installation, Venetian plastering courses, the limewash course and our decorative finishes.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham, London and Manchester.
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